Online Databases

CWC provides free on-campus access to several databases listed below. Additionally, most of these online resources may be accessed off campus by using your CWC user name and password. This page lists the database in alphabetical order.

A to Z Maps Online
World, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

ABI/INFORM
(Proquest) Search respected historical business journals for a unique perspective on topics covering corporate strategies, management techniques, accounting, marketing, advertising, ethics, case studies, and much more. Deep backfiles encompass full runs of some of the most important business journals of the last century, all in cover to cover full page images, just as they were printed. Includes Journal of Business, Barron's, and Nation's Business.

Academic Search Premier
(EBSCO) Indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles, with coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
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AccessScience
Contents drawn from McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, Science and Technology in the News and Biographies.

Agricola
(EBSCO) Index to the National Agricultural Library collection. Includes citations and some full-text. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
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American Indian Experience
Full-text content from reference books, primary sources, images, time line, topic guides, plus information on over 500 American Indian nations.

American Song
A history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

America's Newspapers
(NewsBank) Electronic editions of local, regional, and national U.S. news sources--all in one easy-to-search database.

ArtSTOR
[need to allow pop-ups] Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.

Bibliography of Native North Americans
Citations to literature (books, essays, and more) about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present. Covers all aspects of native North American culture, history and life including a wide range of topics.
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Biography in Context
(GALE) Biographies of current and historic persons from all eras and fields of endeavor, based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.

Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals. Also includes World Data Analyst Online (a database of statistics on every nation of the world) and Gateway to the Classics (introductions to significant works of history, literature, philosophy, and science).

Business Source Premier
(EBSCO) BSP is a collection of popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications on topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, regional studies, sales, trade and technology.
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Career Transitions
(GALE) Search for jobs, build a successful resume and cover letter, and learn job interview strategies. You can search for jobs by title, keywords and location. If you're early in your career or considering a change, you can also search specifically for internships, apprenticeships, entry-level and temp jobs. As a registered user, you can also save jobs of interest with the My Jobs feature to easily find them again later.
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Choices Planner
The Choices computerized career guidance program is available to assist students in completing a self-assessment, gathering current occupational information and conducting college searches.
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ChiltonLibrary.com
(GALE) Authoritative automotive repair information. Thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. [not compatible with Safari]
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Chronicle of Higher Education, The
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the quintessential higher education news publication. Now online, the text from the current print edition is posted every Monday morning. The Chronicle online is updated throughout the day with the latest news in academe.

Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

CQ Global Researcher
Single-topic reports about current international crises and events. Popular sections such as "Current Situation" and "Pro/Con" are joined by the new "Voices from Abroad," which presents a multitude of international viewpoints on vital current issues. Maps, charts, and other explanatory graphics included as well.

CQ Researcher
In-depth, analytical reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

Credo Reference
Single-search access to 400 quality reference titles on every major subject from 60 of the best publishers. Credo's collection contains dictionaries, bilinguals, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.
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Ebrary
Collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in a variety of subject areas. Create an account and make bookmarks, notes, and highlight sections, as well as keep a bookshelf.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(gale) Includes a variety of 18th century materials -- from books and directories, Bibles, sheet music and sermons to advertisements -- and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors.
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ERIC: Education Resources Info Center
Ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

Gale Directory Library
(GALE) Search content of "Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media" and "Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S."
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GeoRef
GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 100,000 references a year. The database contains over 3.1 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

Global Issues in Context
(GALE) Better understand global issues, conflicts and events with explanations of historical and contemporary conditions.
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Global Road Warrior
This resource provides access to country information in various categories. Great database to learn about culture, business, government and other socio-economic information.

Health Source Nursing/Academic
(EBSCO) Coverage of nearly 550 scholarly, full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, including nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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HeinOnline
The world's largest image-based collection of law and law-related material.

HeritageQuest Online
ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Collection of 26,000+ family and local history books, the U.S. Census from 1870 - 1930 and more.

History Reference Center: World
From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, an array of primary sources, images, maps and charts provide expansive geographical and chronological research materials for the study of world history.

Homeland Security Digital Library
Over 74,800 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities.

HRAF World Cultures
The Human Relations Area Files is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

LearningExpress Library
A comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on many common academic and licensing tests.

Legal Forms
A database of blank and completed legal forms that are professionally created, Wyoming-specific and continually updated. Documents address subjects such as bankruptcy, divorce, power of attorney, real estate, taxation and landlord/tenant law

LexisNexis Academic
Searchable newspapers, broadcast and political transcripts, plus legal and business resources.

Nature
Nature is a leading international journal;it provides articles and podcasts in the fields of chemistry, medicine, the environment, life sciences and physical sciences.

Naxos Music Library
The world's largest online classical music library, with streaming access to hundreds of thousands of tracks. There is also jazz, film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content. Also includes synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names and a glossary of musical terms.

NoveList
A fiction database designed for readers in all genres. Describe a plot with author readalikes, find reviews, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. Other content of interest to fiction readers includes 'What We're Reading', Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.

NoveList K-8
Discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom.

OED: Oxford English Dictionary
The accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

OmniFile Full Text Select
(WilsonWeb) Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of periodicals and journals in all core undergraduate subjects. Read-aloud feature included.

OneClick Audiobooks
Over 10,000 downloadable audiobooks from Recorded Books, Inc. Check out up to 15 audiobooks at a time for 21 days (renewals possible). All titles are iPod compatible for Windows users. FAQs available from the Wyoming State Library.

Opposing Viewpoints
(Gale) Pro and con essays on hot-button issues, along with reference and academic sources on the same topics.
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Ovid
Access to all the bibliographic citations available in the database, but full-text is limited to specific journals. YourJournals@Ovid consists of hundreds of scientific, technical and medical journals, 165 of which are full-text.
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Oxford Art Online
Access to Grove Art Online, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists.

Oxford Music Online
Access and cross-search Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Patron Books in Print
Database of 5 million books, audio books, and movies. Features include bestsellers and award winners throughout history, books mentioned in the media, and capability to search by series, fictional characters, and genre.

Play Index
Search over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form that patrons prefer.

ProQuest Congressional
Explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research. This databases offers access to congressional publications dealing with the wide variety of topics addressed by Congress.

Primary Search
(EBSCO) Full-text access to nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Additional content includes the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, a large image collection, maps and flags. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
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ProQuest Agriculture Journals
The leading agricultural journals published in North America, covering a wide range of agriculture-related topics, such as: animal and veterinary sciences, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, and food and human nutrition.

ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest multidisciplinary database. Subject areas covered extensively in this product include business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Search the back issues of 27 newspapers from around the world, including the Boston Globe (1872-1979), the Christian Science Monitor (1908-1997), the New York Times (1851-2007), the Washington Post (1877-1994), the London Guardian Observer (1791-2003) and the Wall Street Journal (1889-1993).

PsycArticles
(Ebsco) Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group
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PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Science Resource Center
Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.

ScienceDirect
Search scholarly journals and books about the physical sciences and engineering, the life sciences, the health sciences, and social sciences such as arts, business and psychology.

Wyoming Newspaper Project
Discover the stories that formed Wyoming. Browse or search the more than 900,000 newspaper pages converted from microfilm to a digital format. All text is searchable, including news articles, news briefs, obituaries and other items of interest.

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